EU AI Act
Definition
The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) is the European Union's risk-based law on artificial intelligence. It entered into force on 1 August 2024 and bans certain practices, sets strict obligations for high-risk AI systems and adds duties for providers of general-purpose AI models, with obligations phasing in over several years.
Why It Matters
It reaches firms outside the EU whose AI systems are placed on the EU market or whose outputs are used there, which includes Bermuda insurers and financial firms with European business.
Latest Coverage
- EU cites EN 18286 as the first harmonised standard under the AI Act 21 October 2026
- EU AI Office opens first AI Act enforcement steps against frontier model providers 18 October 2026
- EU AI Office opens first AI Act enforcement over OpenAI and Anthropic lab incidents 17 October 2026
- EU AI Office opens first AI Act enforcement test over OpenAI and Anthropic agent incidents 16 October 2026
- EU AI Office sends information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic over lab incidents in first AI Act enforcement test 15 October 2026
- European Commission consults on draft AI Act rules for penalty proceedings and company safeguards 15 October 2026
- EU AI Act: Article 50 transparency rules now apply; content marking due December 2026, high-risk rules December 2027 8 October 2026
- OpenAI begins text watermarking to meet EU AI Act machine-readable marking rules 7 October 2026
- US AI leaders sign voluntary White House accord committing to self-regulation and external audits 3 October 2026
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Related Terms
- AI governance
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- ISO/IEC 42001
- AI risk management
- High-risk AI system
- Human in the loop
- Explainability
- AI audit
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